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CalvinIncarnate is a single guy from Perth, WA, Australia.
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Member since Jan 31, 2007
G ' D A Y !

MY FAV SITES R:

THE ECOLOGY SITE
THE HUNGER SITE
OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL
LIFEHACKER
PANDORA
THE ULTIMATE LIBRARY
FIRSTPAGE

. . .


* HEY ! *

U
can download
my latest
full bookmarks file
from Firefox
( it's ~ 1.5 megabytes compressed )

7000+ ' AAA ' LINKS :
ALL HANDPICKED QUALITY

Right click this link + choose " Save As... " ( or similar option ) to download the file:

CALVIN INCARNATE'S BOOKMARKS @ 11 MAY '07

THEN :

1. expand the ZIP file by double-clicking on it + using this password :

E99C8D109DC118D7CDBA54DB9F91AE224A5C2A9CC9EBBFAA155BE0428597B43A

2. double-click the HTM or HTML file to open it in ur browser

~OR~

3. import the HTM(L) file directly into ur bookmarks
( see ur browser's help menu for info on how to do this )

If u import the HTM(L) file,
u can rearrange / edit / delete the new bookmarks as u wish ---
just keep the ones u like !

. . .

* for MUSIC I like,
relax to my radio station "! AD ASTRA ! " ( for free )
This is played via Pandora ;
u can cre8 ur own station there for free, too !

* to CHAT, click on " CONTACT " !

S A L V E T E !

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* NOTE *

(1)

SOME OF THIS MATERIAL IS
* FOR MATURE + HEALTHY-MINDED ADULTS ONLY *

IF THAT'S NOT YOU
* DON'T USE IT *

(2)

THIS BLOG IS MERELY A  ' CRYSTALLIZED SNAPSHOT '
OF MY INCOMPLETE WORK IN 2006 + 2007.

 Posts flagged " ... " or " tbc ",
were " To Be Continued " at a later date ;
but this hope has had to be abandoned.

Blogging, like many I.T. activities, demands too much resources, including time.
I can see now why tumbleblogging developed.
I think we may rather be the better
if the whole blogging fad burnt itself out,
and we all returned to our pianoforte,
and stories or social chit~chat about the fire.
:)
Yes I idealise -
but there's a weighty point here.

( It may be rightly )
I value more
Reality
+
experiencing balanced intellectual / aesthetic / emotional / physical engagement
with
our fragile world of flora and fauna ;
other human beings ;
and my / our pressing problems ( with a view to solutions )

Aside from select social dabblings, such as chat and forum postings,
I choose to cease my involvement in SU.

SU has proved a sometimes frustrating and poorly-supported and -moderated service,
lacking the facility with which I hoped to best bless my audience :
importing and sharing my unusually big swag of ' AAA ' bookmarks
in a user-friendly fashion and without unjustifiable drain of time and effort.

Tools are created - or adopted - by humans to serve serve human needs or wants :
if a particular tool does not achieve one's needs / wants, logically, one should abandon it.

And yes,
I am weary of more - and less - than SU.

My apologies to all for help promised, but left unfinished.

" I   am   going .    I  am  leaving  NOW .    GOODBYE ! "
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From the page, formatting modified :

"In response to a impending royalty rate increase that, if implemented, would lead to the virtual shutdown of Internet radio in the U.S., thousands of webcasters plan to go silent next Tuesday, June 26, to draw attention to their industry's plight.

This "Day of Silence" is an encore of a successful media event that small webcasters organized on May 1, 2002 in response to a similarly royalty rate ruling from a Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel (CARP) five years ago. That event garnered national attention and was subsequently followed by a rate cut by the Librarian of Congress and the passage of the Small Webcaster Settlement Act for the period 1998-2005.

Webcasters will be alerting their listeners that "silence" is what Internet radio may sound like on or shortly after July 15th, the day on which 17 months' worth of retroactive royalty increase payments are due to the SoundExchange collection organization under the terms of a recent Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) decision.

Although a royalty rate like this is typically 4% to 5% of revenues in other media (e.g., satellite radio), for other rights (e.g., the musical compositions), and in other countries, the rates set by the CRB judges equate to roughly 50% of revenues for large webcasters like Yahoo! LAUNCHcast (and probably many terrestrial station streamers), 150% to 300% of revenues for small webcasters like AccuRadio, Radioio, and Digitally Imported, and, for webcasters with large numbers of channels like Rhapsody and Pandora, well more than 1,000% of revenues.

If the rates are left unchanged, virtually all independent webcasters will be bankrupted and most larger parent companies would logically shut down their Internet radio divisions through the end of the 2005-10 period.

'Day of Silence' also day for action
Listeners will be urged to call their representatives in Congress that day and to ask them to support the "Internet Radio Equality Act" (IREA) (H.R. 2060 in the House and S. 1353 in the Senate) and to call or write their local newspapers that day to ask for editorial support for the bill."


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